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UPCOMING EVENTS
Pro Tem is
happy to announce these organizations’ events for San Diego’s
legal support staff community:
San Diego Legal
Secretaries Association:
 Click here for the next SDLSA meeting:
http://www.sdlsa.org/event_news.php
San Diego Paralegal
Association:
Click here for the next SDPA meetings:
http://www.sdparalegals.org/event_list.php
Mary
Alexander’s Legal Seminars:
Saturday, 9:00 am to
5:00 pm, March 15, 2008
Civil
Procedure Classes – First Session: Pertinent California Rules of Court; court structure;
jurisdiction; venue; preparing and filing a complaint; certificate of
service; certificate of progress, inability to default and inability to
respond; statement of damages; certificate of merit; amended complaint;
responding to a complaint; filing and serving cross-complaints; service of
summons; taking a default; calendar control; proofs of service; fast track
rules, dates and forms; civil law & motion rules; and judicial
arbitration rules and forms (*See
below for details)
Saturday, 9:00 am to
5:00 pm, March 29, 2008
Civil
Procedure Classes – Second Session:
Discovery rules and procedures for serving and responding to
interrogatories; request for admissions; exchange of expert witnesses;
depositions; subpoenas; IME's; demand for production of documents; trial
preparation; file organization; trial notebooks; joint trial readiness
conference report; advance trial review orders; motions in limine; jury fees;
jury instructions; CCP § 998 offers; trial subpoenas; dismissals; orders;
judgments; memorandum of costs; and post-judgment procedures (*See
below for details)
All Civil Procedure
classes are held at the Marriott Courtyard, 9650 Scranton Road, San Diego.
(For directions call 858-558-9600.) Registration for both sessions is $340.00.
Registration for a single session is $190.00. The required text is the Civil Litigation Manual for
Superior Court Procedures in San Diego County written by Mary Alexander.
If you do not already own this manual, it can be purchased at a discounted price
of $60 for students registering for one or more of these sessions. This
manual must be paid for at the time of registration and will be distributed
the day of class. The cost of the manual without registering for a class is
$110.45 (includes tax and postage).
These classes are recommended for legal
secretaries, paralegals, law clerks and attorneys who want to improve their
present skills and gain a better understanding of the court system. The
emphasis is on local and state rules of court; various codes as they pertain
to the topics referenced above; calendaring, serving and filing deadlines;
and the proper format for pleadings in compliance with state and local rules.
All classes are taught by Mary M. Alexander, PLS, CCLS, a litigation
assistant with over 25 years of legal secretarial experience. Mary taught
Legal Office Procedure classes at Grossmont
Community College for 11 years and
periodic legal secretarial classes through the UCSD Extension
Center.
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To register, call 1-888-231-7154, email your request to
alsp@ca.rr.com, or click here for a registration
form.
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